Let’s say that you want to create a setup with piano and strings layered but you want the strings to be at much lower volume than the piano, and you need to have the volume levels set to specific amounts when you call up the Setup. You can use entry values to set initial volume levels.<\/p>\n
1. Press the MIDI Setups button, then type 127, then press Enter on the numeric keypad.<\/p>\n
2. Press the MIDI Transmit button. If the display doesn’t show Zone 1, press the Zone 1 button. Press 1, then Enter. The button will now be lit green and the display will show it is set to channel 1.<\/p>\n
3. Press the Program button. Choose the Program you want for the first zone. You can select it by using the alpha wheel, the + and – buttons, or the numeric keypad. (The programs and their numbers are listed in Appendices A & B in the manual.) Or you can use the Sound Select and Next\/Previous Group buttons, as described at the beginning of this document. <\/p>\n
4. Step 3 will allow you to choose any program from the Internal Voice bank. But if you have the VGM board and want to choose a program from one of the VGM banks, then you need to switch banks. There are two ways to do this.<\/p>\n
If you know exactly which program you want, then the fastest way is to type the bank number, followed by the “+\/-” button, followed by the program number, then Enter. (The bank numbers were listed at the beginning of this document.)<\/p>\n
OR<\/p>\n
If you want to scroll through the programs in a bank, press the << button to get to the Bank parameter. Use the alpha wheel to choose the bank you want. Then press the >> button to get back to the Program parameter and use the alpha wheel to scroll through the programs in that bank.<\/p>\n
2. Press the >> button four times. Since you are still on zone 2, the display should read Zone:2 Slider B, Entry Value:None. Set the value to 95.<\/p>\n
3. Press the Zone 1 button. Hold the Controllers Button and move Slider A. Press the >> button four times. The display should now read Zone:1 Slider A, Entry Value:None. Set the value to 127.<\/p>\n
4. Go through steps 8 and 9 in tutorial #1 to name and save your Setup.<\/p>\n
5. Now go to a different Setup, then call up your saved Setup again. Play the keyboard. Notice that the strings are quieter than the piano. Since the two sliders are assigned to volume on the two different MIDI channels, they each send a volume message with the Entry value (127 on channel 1 and 95 on channel 2) as soon as you call up the Setup. If you subsequently move the slider, it will send volume messages.<\/p>\n
An IMPORTANT point to understand when using Entry values:<\/p>\n
Lets say that your B slider happens to be all the way up when you call up the Setup you just made. Volume is now at 95 on channel 2. Now you want to use the slider to fade the strings out. If you move the slider, you wouldn’t want it to suddenly jump to the current value; since the slider is all the way up (set to 127), it would jump to 126 the moment you moved the slider down and the volume would suddenly get louder!<\/p>\n
To avoid this problem, the PC88 is designed so that once you set an Entry value, the slider won’t become active until you pass the point of the Entry value. So as you move the slider down, nothing will happen until you reach 95 and at that point, it will follow the slider as you bring it down, thereby creating a smooth fade out.<\/p>\n
Here’s an extra tip – let’s say that you want to have a piano & strings Setups like the one described above, but you don’t want to hear the strings when you call up the Setup. Instead, you want to bring them in later with a slider. To do this, you could set the Entry value for zone 2 to 0. Now let’s assume the slider is all the way down when you first call up the Setup. Remember that the slider must go past the Entry value before it becomes active. So the Entry value is 0 and the current position of the slider is also at 0. When you move the slider up, it goes to 1, not 0, and therefore nothing happens as you move the slider up. So you would have to move the slider up slightly, then back down so that it goes to 0, then the next time you move it up the slider will be active.<\/p>\n
To avoid having to move the slider up , down, and up again, set the Entry value to a very low number other than 0, such as 5. The value is so low that you won’t hear the strings, but as you push up the slider the first time, it will go past 5 and become active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[34118],"storecat":[],"itemids":[27110,30295],"manufacturers":[33482],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n